Jayme Lawson

The Running Man (3*): Patchy Sci-Fi Remake Demonstrates Glen Powell’s Limitations.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Running Man” (2025, 3*, 12A). I’ve been a fan of Edgar Wright’s style of movie-making for a very long time: “Hot Fuzz” is one of my all-time-favourite comedies; and “Baby Driver” and “Last Night in Soho” both made my Top 10 Films of the Year lists (in 2017 … Read more

The Woman King (15): “We Are Dahomey”.

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A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Woman King” (2022). “The Woman King” seems to be getting a whole lot of flack on IMDB for sanitising the history of slavery, since the film is based on real people in the West-African country of Dahomey (now part of Benin). Ignoring that furore and viewing it as … Read more